Renewable power supplied 38% of all EU electricity in 2020, surpassing fossil electricity for the first time!
This was driven by the continued growth of wind and solar, now supplying 20% of all EU electricity. The dip in electricity demand due to the corona crisis (4% for the year as a whole) had a modest effect.
The growth of renewable electricity was a major factor in the decline of coal-fired power generation in the EU, to only 13% of the total in 2020.
This development was helped by the higher EU-ETS CO2 price (now €34 = $41 per tonne).
The result of all of this: average CO2 emissions of an EU kWh dropped by 29% in 5 years! (And my home country the Netherlands, although still behind, even saw it drop by 40%)

Your electric car/bicycle is driving/riding cleaner every year.
Thanks @EmberClimate and @AgoraEW; great and timely overview!
By the way, this graph also shows that Polish electricity now emits 0.5 kg of CO2 per kWh more than the EU average. That’s 0.5 tonne per MWh, leading to an extra CO2 cost of €17/MWh in its wholesale electricity market. Strong driver for a switch from coal to renewables there. Image
CO2 emissions for a km driven with an electric car (takes 0.15-0.20 kWh) in the EU now range from 2-3 g in Sweden to 109-145 g in Poland. Average: 34-45 g; not bad compared to 150-200 g for a fossil fuel car. Image

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh
 

Keep Current with Kees van der Leun

Kees van der Leun Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

PDF

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video
  1. Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us!

  2. From a Twitter thread mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll

Practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @Sustainable2050

28 Jan
Cost overruns and delays building up for UK’s Hinkley Point C nuclear power station. Total cost now estimated at £23 billion in 2015 pounds, that’s around £26.6 billion in today’s money = €30.1 billion, or €9,400 per kW. ft.com/content/fbc43d…
Hinkley Point C’s completion date has been pushed back by another 6 months, to mid-2026, that’s 5.5 years from now.

In October 2013, UK govt expected the plant to be completed in 2023. Construction started in December 2018.
“EDF will turn on its first nuclear plant in Britain before Christmas 2017 because it will be the right time,” Vincent de Rivaz, then its UK chief executive, promised in 2007. “It is the moment of the power crunch. Without it the lights will go out.”

thetimes.co.uk/article/has-nu…
Read 6 tweets
6 Jan
What drives me totally mad is the unbelievable naivete of part of the press, intelligent people, and NL TV news. "Why wasn't the Capitol protected any better?" Come on people, use your brain. Who do you think was in charge of that?
Read 34 tweets
3 Jan
German electricity 2020 (public grid):
- Renewables at 50.5% (over 50% for the first time)
- Wind power produced more electricity than brown coal and hardcoal together

energy-charts.info/downloads/Stro…
German electricity, 2010-2020:
- Renewables sharply up, especially wind (light green)
- Coal (brown) down, accelerating
- Nuclear (red) down, nuclear exit in progress
Germany, renewable electricity, public grid, production in TWh:
- Up by a factor of 6, between 2002 and 2020
- Doubled in the period 2011-2020
Read 17 tweets
31 Dec 20
So this was our second warmest year ever, here in the Netherlands, 1.6⁰C warmer than the preheated 1981-2010 average.

The three last years are now all in the top-6, out of 120. Image
When I was born, the Netherlands had just experienced its warmest year ever: 1959, with an average temperature of 10.15⁰C. It took 29 years to surpass that.

Now we call that 'normal'; it became the 1981-2010 average.
Next year, when we will start calling the 1991-2020 average normal, we'll call it 'a cold year': the annual average temperature of 1991-2020 was 0.5⁰C higher than that of 1981-2010. That's a big jump, in just 10 years.
Read 4 tweets
28 Dec 20
Weird story on the front page of @nrc. A year ago, NL govt promised to ensure 5 months supply of medicines by mid-2022. But it hasn't started yet. This year, 1,500 medicines were unavailable, and by now, the average pharmacy spends 17.5 hours/week trying to get hold of those.
That means that around 1,000 Dutch pharmacy employees are now chasing missing medicines, full time.

Reason for shortage? "Long supply lines from Asia; it takes 8 months for an order to arrive in NL." Eight months?!
Reason for not starting to build the stock? "It is still unclear who should pay."

Lack of preparation time? "The decision to build the stock was the result of 6(!) years of intensive discussions between insurers, pharmaceutical companies, wholesale, pharmacies and the Ministry."
Read 5 tweets
26 Dec 20
The good news: when our old fridge broke down, we bought ourselves a new one with an A+++ energy label (left). Image
The bad news: that label is only valid through 28 February 2021. The next day, that same fridge will have a D label; the new sticker was already included too.

It's the result of 'raising the bar' in EU appliance standards, long overdue. Image
Due to substantial improvements, almost all fridges had A/A+/A++/A+++ labels by now. The new scale should drive further innovation, leading to even lower electricity consumption.
ec.europa.eu/info/energy-cl… Image
Read 5 tweets

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!


This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3/month or $30/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Too expensive? Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal Become our Patreon

Thank you for your support!

Follow Us on Twitter!